"This is an accessible must-read for all readers, from conventional
poetic aficionados to those who wouldn't touch a rhyme scheme with
a ten-foot pole. . . . Active verbs drip from the pages of this
collection, treating the reader to expert English poetics.
Allusions to canonical literature smile at the reader and second
the expertise of the poet. Thompson-Slaughter reveals her
proficiency with many styles of formal poetry, yet she shines most
in her open-form pieces, through which honesty speaks loudest."
Sueann Wells
Author of Awake Before Dawn and
Midnight Summons
Editor of Mother Muse
"Denise Thompson-Slaughter's poems celebrate the sound and sense
of those elements that form an authentic life, that make us both
beast and believer, bound to this world and yet longing for the
heavens. In Elemental, she puts her 'best ear forward/And what I
hear...makes my heart...blaze in its dark cage'; and we don't mind
inhabiting that imagination, even when 'death arrives in a cloak as
kind as silk/where we had expected sack cloth.' With careful
attention to her perceived world, she gives us a 'focus of
sounds...to comprehend this place/well enough to move through
it/with some grace.'"
Charles Cote
Author of Flying for the Window
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